Przybilla accepts five-year deal to stay with Blazers By Marc Stein ESPN.com One more top free-agent is off the market: Joel Przybilla has decided to stay with the Portland Trail Blazers. Przybilla's agent, Bill Duffy, told ESPN.com that the 26-year-old has verbally agreed to sign a five-year deal with the Blazers believed to be worth more than $30 million. Przybilla also had strong interest in Chicago, but the Bulls landed the No. 1 center available when they agreed to a four-year deal Monday with Detroit's Ben Wallace worth an estimated $60 million. The Pistons, in turn, reached a verbal agreement Tuesday with San Antonio free-agent center Nazr Mohammed, but Przybilla -- who drew feelers from the Spurs and a handful of other clubs -- chose to stay where he is. "Joel said all along that loyalty is important to him," Duffy said. "It means a lot to him that Portland gave him a chance two years ago when no one else did. His relationship with the Blazers and [general manager] Kevin Pritchard were very important factors." http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2509340 合同內容大約是5年30 million Przybilla其實還是對前往芝加哥公牛很有興趣， 但公牛簽了他們的第一志願BIG BEN之後自然不會再和Przybilla簽約， 而在Przybilla爭奪戰中另有馬刺、活塞兩隻主要的競爭對手， （其實還有騎士等隊也對他有興趣） 但後來拓荒者來是以較高的價碼爭取到他， 除了價碼之外，Przybilla的好朋友同時也是拓荒者的代理GM-Kevin Pritchard 也是一個很重要的因素。 Kevin Pritchard和總裁Steve Patterson從選秀當天開始， 即有一連串改革的行動，看來他們勢在必得的樣子， 當然背後的推手同時也是拓荒者的大老闆Paul Allen也是功不可沒， 要交易要砸錢買人，也要有人點頭嘛XD 國外有球迷也說了：Allen看起來一點都不像是要賣球隊的樣子！ 的確也是有點道理在XD 也希望接下來的交易案無論時誰交易出去， 或是誰被交易進來都能有好的成果表現出來！ --

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